Author Topic: Dj Quik rates his albums. (Read 251 times)

Myrealname · « **on:** November 24, 2002, 12:54:54 AM »

"If there’s anybody you need to be jocking in this rap game (besides Ghostface) it’s DJ Quik. Dude is a West Coast legend. Peep game: he’s been jheri-curling it for over twelve years, has rhymes that make Too $hort sound like a feminist and beats that got Dr. Dre shook. He gets love from gangbangers and URB magazine readers alike. All his records are classics (except maybe one), but for some reason he got jinxed with every release. And although he’s known for crafting highly orchestrated funk that sounds like 1976, Quik is currently changing his musical approach, as evidenced by the ridiculous Bollywood-meets-Compton gangsterpiece he produced for Truth Hurts. Apparently, there is more of that to come on his new independent album, Under Tha Influence. In the meantime, here’s a career retrospective, from an old G’s perspective.

Quik Is the Name
(Profile, 1991)
We did that record just to make money in the neighborhood. We didn’t want to sell drugs and we really didn’t want to work at Taco Bell no more. So we started doing underground tapes and putting the homies’ names in them cuz we figured “even if we can’t rap or these beats suck, if we just mention one of the homeboys’ names they’re going to spend ten dollars on this motherfucker, so we’re going to be making at least a good twenty dollars a day.” We were the first people to come out rocking red, doing it the gangsta way from a Blood core. I think that was a selling point: We were the first Bloods doing it and we had talent. We weren’t just run-of-the-mill bustas. Recording the album was a weird thing for me cuz I had never been in the studio before, with all them knobs and shit. Keep in mind I was just a 19-year-old dude, like I didn’t really know nothing. So the shit comes out like January 21st of 1991 and my life has never been the same since.

Way 2 Fonky
(Profile, 1992)
That was me after the first album went platinum, trying to deal with this fame. We went back into the studio and I ended up doing the whole thing by myself. It came out pretty decent. I mean, it went gold and we had “Just Like Compton” and “Way 2 Fonky,” but I wasn’t really happy.

Safe + Sound
(Profile, 1995)
Between Way 2 Fonky and Safe + Sound I went through a lot of bullshit: family member changes, fighting all the damn time, shoot-outs, and shit going on. Profile still wasn’t respecting me or paying me, so that’s when I started hanging out with Suge Knight. He went to the label, “talked” to them and sure enough they gave him some money for me. Musically, I think this was one of our best records. My mentor Roger Troutman had shown me some tricks with the talkbox and I had all my musician people around me. We experimented with everything from simple, late ’70s to early ’80s funk like Parliament, Cameo, and Zapp, to some straight-up jazz. We just knew this album was going to go platinum. Suge tried to get promo money from Profile and they didn’t want to do business with him no more. So the album lost its bullet. A great record had to suffer because of business and politics.

Rhythm-al-ism
(Arista, 1998)
I spent my own money doing this record and when I took it to Profile they wasn’t hearing it. I was like, “Just give me what y’all said you would give me in the contract and I’m cool. I’ll take them cookie crumbs.” Keep in mind I signed back in the day when record contracts was nothing but dildos, fuckin’ the shit out of a nigga with no Vaseline. Luckily I had done “Let’s Get Down” with Raphael Saadiq and that caught the attention of Clive Davis at Arista. He ended up buying Profile. Then, when we was ready to put the record out, my best friend got killed. My whole head got fucked up. If you look at that picture of my face on the cover, I don’t look that confident. I was fucked up in the head and so hurt

Balance & Options
(Arista, 2000)
It was fun working with Clive Davis, he taught me a lot of game. But Clive got ousted. I was like, “If Clive ain’t gonna be here, I don’t want to be here.” I did a record with intentional bad songs on it so I could get off this label. It’s a bunch of demos, really. Unfortunately it’s a mark on my reputation. Forgive me for Balance & Options man, I just had to get free.

Under Tha Influence
(Euponic, 2002)
I’m completely independent now and it’s a different sound. West Coast music can get boring real quick, being totally P-Funked out all the time. I mean, look at it like this: Everything goes in cycles. Roger Troutman, he was a student of Bootsy Collins and them, who were students of James Brown. And that’s where I’m starting over: I maxed out the Zapp sound, I maxed out the Funkadelic sound, so I’m back to the pure James Brown shit. The SP 1200 and James Brown records, where hip hop started. I felt like experimenting and having fun with shit again. It’s like Corn Flakes every day will drive me crazy. Sometimes I need some Frosted Flakes, sometimes I need some Apple Jacks. Sometimes I need some pussy — you know, I got to keep it moving.

LAZY · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2002, 01:17:15 AM »

thats interestin i think and i think balance and options is good if its all "shitty" songs like quik said its still a good cd

BL7 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2002, 10:54:36 AM »

Quote from: DPG206 AKA LAZY on November 24, 2002, 01:17:15 AM

thats interestin i think and i think balance and options is good if its all "shitty" songs like quik said its still a good cd

That's exactly how I feel. Sometimes I think Quik doesn't even know how talented he is. Oh well.

Hatesrats™ · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:04:05 PM »

Tight read..

yo now that Myrealname is gone, who's gonna surf the net for this type of read....I'm 2 fucken lazy to investigate for this type of ish...lol

Oh well
Thanx for the read "Myrealname"
your countless articles & 411 will be missed

..:R.I.P. to your account:..

OnE
Hatesrats 2oo2

Lil Jay · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2002, 05:29:37 PM »

i almost had a heart attack when i saw myrealname's name next to this thread lol $:-\$

but come to find out its an old ass post

Gangsta_T · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2002, 02:34:31 AM »

Quote from: Hatesrats on December 09, 2002, 04:04:05 PM

Tight read..

yo now that Myrealname is gone, who's gonna surf the net for this type of read....I'm 2 fucken lazy to investigate for this type of ish...lol

Oh well
Thanx for the read "Myrealname"
your countless articles & 411 will be missed

..:R.I.P. to your account:..

OnE
Hatesrats 2oo2

yea exactly...
im also too lazy to search around the net for these articles...
someone post that shit weekly

oh and quik sayin balance & options is a bad album...
wtf
i love this album...
i think it's tiiiht..

like BL7 said..quik should realize how talented he is..

peace
GT

Woodrow · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2002, 08:30:40 AM »

Quote from: Hatesrats on December 09, 2002, 04:04:05 PM

Tight read..

yo now that Myrealname is gone, who's gonna surf the net for this type of read....I'm 2 fucken lazy to investigate for this type of ish...lol

Oh well
Thanx for the read "Myrealname"
your countless articles & 411 will be missed

..:R.I.P. to your account:..

OnE
Hatesrats 2oo2

He took it from my board...

Hatesrats™ · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2002, 11:50:17 AM »

Quote from: Engel-Rock on December 10, 2002, 08:30:40 AM

He took it from my board...

Word homie..
Keep it poppin' at ya website, holding it down for the Quik..like no other site.
One of my favorite stop's got it on lock and Favorite since the jump..

I was was sayin' myrealname's snoopin' all over the net will be missed by lazy fuck'z like me..lol

OnE
Hatesrats 2oo2

I appreciate the hard work...and your time to bring us the dopest new's on Compton's finest..